The River

The River
Words and Music By Paul L. Cataldo

Take me down to the river
Help me cleanse my soul
Put my head in the water
Try to make me whole
Grant me life everlasting, if you really think it can be mine
If I live a long life, wanna know I didn’t waste my time!

Everyday I’m reminded
Of how fragile we all are
Attached to our cell phones
Just can’t live without a car
We shop on our computers
But we have to drive to a bar
If we had to live without it all, I don’t really think we’d get too far.

Cause you know we’re not alone
Everyone is known
We’re all each others brothers
We’re all each others home
So try to live a good life
Do the best you can
And if you have a good wife
Show her you’re her man

We raise up our children
Try to teach them good from bad
Try to give them all the things that we never had
Try to teach them that knowledge is really their best tool
Just to keep them from being someone else’s fool!

Repeat chorus…

So take me down to the river
I wanna cleanse my soul
Put my head in the water
Try to make me whole
Don’t wanna see the end just yet,
Cause you know I’m still doing fine…………….fade

Watching the news one night and all of the commercials in between. I was flipping thru stations like usual and the results are in each verse.

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I have been playing for over 40 yrs self taught. I play several instruments. Drums, bass, piano, guitar, dulcimer, banjo, just about anything with strings. All self taught. I never really ever had the desire to be a rock star of any kind but I have a very deep creative love for music. Having a song of mine become a hit by someone else would be the ultimate icing on the cake. I write mostly instrumentals on guitar in different tunings. Occassionally I get lyrics to come thru and finding music to fit them is the easy part.